Well-bucket



UNITED- STATES PATENT QFFICE.

DANIEL P. FARNHAM, OF JOHNSTOW'N CENTER, \VISCONSIN.

WELL-BUCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,708, dated April 3, 1860.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL P. FARNHAM, of Johnstown Center, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin', have invented a new and useful Improvement in lVell-Buckets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents av vertical longitudinal section of the curb, and a portion of the well, showing two buckets, one of which is being filled with water, while the other in an upright position is about to be discharged of its contents. The position of the bucket, when emptied, is shown in red lines. Fig. 2 is a bucket and a portion of the chain showing a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both gures.

The nature of my invention consists in giving to the well buckets a peculiar shape, in connection with a novel mode of hanging them whereby they will more readily enter the water, fill, and emerge from the water; and it also consists in arranging on the end of each bucket a suitable pivoted hook which will attach itself to the cross-bar of the bail as the buckets descend and turn the bucket while in the water, and keep it in the desired position for holding water while it is being elevated, or to prevent it from upsetting before it reaches the discharge spout in the curb: all as hereinafter described and represented.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawings, A represents the curb upon which is mounted in suitable brackets the chain wheel B, having a suitable winch for operating it. This wheel is turned in the direction indicated by the arrow Fig. l, and over it passes endlesschains D, to which is connected at suitable intervals the buckets C. The chain is of a sutlicient length to reach well down into the water, and as the wheel B, is turned the object of the invention is to elevate the water from the well and tilt the buckets at a discharge spout E, in the end of the curb A, with greater certainty and with a more simple and etlicacious arrangement than has heretofore been employed for this purpose. To this end the buckets are hung by bails or handles F,

from two chains D, which are separated and kept in this state by transverse rods a, a, connected to each chain a little above the bails of the buckets. The bails F, are hung from the ends of chains D, as shown by Fig. 2, and connect with the buckets a little below, and in front of their centers, as shown clearly by Fig. l, and at the center or slightly above the center are pivoted two arms Z), Z), which are attached to the lower ends of the chains D. In this manner a con tinuous chain of buckets are formed, and they are each hung or suspended to the chains in such a way that they will oscillate freely on their centers and that when the buckets leave the water and are ascending to the place for their discharge they will be kept in an upright position as represented in Fig. l.

The buckets themselves are of a peculiar shape, which is a decided improvement on the cylindrical or quadrangular bucket. They are constructed with a view to hold a large quantity of water, to turn freely in the water, and to enter and fill in a better way than with either of the above mentioned buckets. For this purpose the buckets are, in a cross section, of an oval shape, as represented, with a wide mouth in the top, which allows the air to escape freely from the bucket while the water is rushing in.

On one end of each bucket is a hooked arm c, pivoted to the inside end of the bucket; these hooks project above the mouth of the bucket a sufficient distance to engage with the cross bar of the bails F, when the buckets pass over the chain wheel B, and keep the buckets in a proper position to enter the water in the well, and when the buckets till it turns them so as to keep them filled with water until they arrive at the discharge spout; the tilting arms G, which are pivoted to the curb A, at c, and furnished with hooks on their free ends, as shown by the drawings, Fig. l, tilts the buckets over, as represented by the red lines, Fig. l, and the water falls into the spout or trough E. The buckets then pass over the wheel B', down into the well again and when filled are turned by the hooked arm c, and elevated and discharged, as above described.`

During the upward movement of the buckets they are held in position by the weight of the succeeding buckets and the manner of hanging the buckets herein described, the pins 7L, projecting from the buckets below and .in front of the succeeding 10 chain 1n combination With holding pins h, andE looked arln o, as described and represen e DANIEL P. FARNHAM.

Witnesses:

H. A. PA'l'rERsoN, C. T. WILCOX. 

